Resurrection: The Struggle for a New RussiaResurrection plunges the reader directly into the thick of events so that one all but feels Yeltsin's breath upon one's face - he is drunk one day, in command the next, as volatile as the fragmented country he tries to lead. Remnick's new Russia springs to life through vivid portraits of its players: the half-Jewish anti-Semite Zhirinovsky, "a hater, a crank, a nut"; the young (and purged) economist Yegor Gaidar, champion of "shock therapy" and market reform; Vladimir Gusinsky, Russia's Citizen Kane ("a first-generation capitalist living in a jungle world with few rules or restraints"); Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who returned from a twenty-year exile to find a country freed from communism but still steeped in misery - and nostalgia. These portraits emerge against a background dominated by the war in Chechnya, which Remnick visits in a bloody and unforgettable chapter, and a Moscow in turbulent transition. |
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... regime's decline - imitations of the old man's garbles were com- mon comic currency in the late seventies . When he took power in 1985 , Gorbachev displayed a fluency that held out the illusion that the regime , now in command of its ...
... regime's decline - imitations of the old man's garbles were com- mon comic currency in the late seventies . When he took power in 1985 , Gorbachev displayed a fluency that held out the illusion that the regime , now in command of its ...
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... regime . The events of October had not erased that nostalgia at all ; it was only now beginning to form , to take hold as a social impulse , a harden- ing , radicalized opposition . Nostalgia was everywhere and took varied shapes . In ...
... regime . The events of October had not erased that nostalgia at all ; it was only now beginning to form , to take hold as a social impulse , a harden- ing , radicalized opposition . Nostalgia was everywhere and took varied shapes . In ...
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... regime . It might criticize the regime once in a while , but it is really re- laying the regime's rather light self - criticism . Russian TV's news pro- gram , Vesti , is a bit better than Ostankino - it is less official - but the ...
... regime . It might criticize the regime once in a while , but it is really re- laying the regime's rather light self - criticism . Russian TV's news pro- gram , Vesti , is a bit better than Ostankino - it is less official - but the ...
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The Lost Empire | 3 |
The October Revolution | 37 |
The Great Dictator | 84 |
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